Get it right: it was a country bluegrass metal instrumental band. It's a fairly niche metal sub-genre, to be fair. Some people prefer to call it 'old time metal' and deny the bluegrass link to broaden the appeal and ensure the audience sometimes outnumbers the band.
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Let's spread some musical misinformation
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Get it right: it was a country bluegrass metal instrumental band. It's a fairly niche metal sub-genre, to be fair. Some people prefer to call it 'old time metal' and deny the bluegrass link to broaden the appeal and ensure the audience sometimes outnumbers the band.
Bluegrass isn't strictly a form of music, but was born in 1919 as a practice to ensure social distancing from the 'band' members during the Spanish Flu. On the other hand, Schoenberg got so bored during lock down that year that he invented serial music. We might have been spared serial music had bluegrass 'music' made its way across the Atlantic.
Queen has that name because Farouk Bulsara (Freddie Mercury) was Parsi royalty and could have been a king, but using the name King at the time was too likely to be confused with Jonathan King or Elvis, so the nearest equivalent was used. Technically, Bulsara was a prince, but a 13 year-old in Minnesota wrote to indicate he needed to use the name.
There's no significant difference between major and minor chords, because come on, guys, it's just one small letter "m".
Duplicating a mistake in the same spot the following measure turns it into an intentional, if sometimes interesting, fill.
If I have Alphabits
I entertain myself with cereal music every morning.
If I have Alphabits, I have 26X26X26... possibilities to - 
Oh, wait... That ISN'T misinformation.
I'll see myself out. Have a nice day.
I entertain myself with cereal music every morning.
If I have Alphabits, I have 26X26X26... possibilities to - Oh, wait... That ISN'T misinformation.
I'll see myself out. Have a nice day.
I have found that when you drop your pick into the soundhole of an acoustic guitar the pick spends a short time in the same place that extra socks go when lost in the dryer. That is why you can never get your pick out of the guitar the first time you try to remove it. This is known as the Pickless Capture.
Actually, you HAVE to play Thunderbirds during electrical storms. There's just no other way to power them without lightning.
Kramer aluminum necked basses are the best bass for light country bluegrass metal.
You can get it out if you first offer the extra dimensional demons a sock. Socks in an acoustic also make it quieter hence the saying 'put a sock in it'. If you put picks in your dryer, you can get socks out. This is why some musicians playing with picks don't have socks.
Vitamins are named after notes, which is why musical instruments were so popular aboard ship, as tunes in the appropriate key could ward off scurvy. However eighteenth century Royal Navy musicianship was so bad many captains provided limes for the crew so as to avoid having to listen to so many awful sea shanties.
All operas are actually in English, it's just that the singing style is so convoluted you can't tell. But it is loud, which means that all foreigners, at least, can understand it, whether it not they speak English. English, you could say, is the lingua franca of opera.
Meatloaf tried out several names before settling on Meatloaf
some of the names he tried out included 'Cottage Pie, 'Shepherds pie', 'Burger Patty'... and other names of food items containing mince meat
some of the names he tried out included 'Cottage Pie, 'Shepherds pie', 'Burger Patty'... and other names of food items containing mince meat
It came from his time as a back up singer for Buttery Pat
Gibson Thunderbird basses are so wearisome on the arms that players require assistants to aid them by holding their arms up with not-quite-invisible wires. Selling them to sceptical British bassists was a big ask, but one Tin Pan Alley shop came up with a great PR stunt. They got exclusive rights to the only five basses allowed under strict foreign import laws and had them demoed in store by the UK's (perhaps the world's) only supergroup 5-piece comprised entirely of extremely famous bassists called Scott, Virgil and the 3 others I can't remember.
The Thunderbirds were sold with a free set of extra strings (to hold the players arms up, not for the bass) on a first come, first served basis with an announcer egging on the fevered crowd. Poor Gerry Anderson didn't persuade his wife Sylvia to open her purse quickly enough and the words, "5-4-3-2-1. Thunderbirds are Go" haunted him for a long time.
The Thunderbirds were sold with a free set of extra strings (to hold the players arms up, not for the bass) on a first come, first served basis with an announcer egging on the fevered crowd. Poor Gerry Anderson didn't persuade his wife Sylvia to open her purse quickly enough and the words, "5-4-3-2-1. Thunderbirds are Go" haunted him for a long time.
Mr. M. Loaf is, of course, a vegetarian. He did receive a generous offer from the meat substitute firm Quorn to change his name to Mr. Q. Loaf, but declined.
The brains behind the Thunderbird promotion was a Mr. Hugh J. Brains, brother of the purveyor of West Country faggots.
